Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-13

will come rapidly forward. Vegetation
was not suffering for moisture, bnt the
rain is nevertheless welcome, as our PEG.
pie had been experiencing some moon
venienoe from dust.
A land contest case between two
Charles Mix county settlers named
Peller and Farmer has occupied the at
tention of the officers of the Yankton
land office to-day.
Don't forget the G. q, r., fair tonight
Supper served every evening after s
O'Clock.
In some OF the upper towns the pessi-
'mists who neglect to enthuse over the
boom are invited by the viiigancs COM
mittee to move on, Yankton has no
vigilance committee.
A prominent farmer remarked to-day:
"The value OF this rain to Yankton
county cannot be reckoned in dollars
and GENTS. When the harvest time
comes the good that it will do will be
visible. There is millions in it,"
The Milwaukee company is putting
the old Dakota Southern track in shape
for heavy through trains to and from
Chicago. Sixty pound STEEL rails are
going down. This is to be the Mil
waukee's most important trunk line.
The city marshal evinces q de-
termination to protect the public from
roaming stock and bad smelling alleys
This is c~ommendable and his intentions
should be backed by public sentiment
The city ordinances should be enforced
Taylor & Sargens's addition to the
city of Yankton was put on the market
to-day and the fine location Of the LOTT
thereon will no doubt hasten the sale o.
them all. Several residence structures
will be erected in this addition immedi-
ately. l
a representative OF the Edison electric
light Is at the insane asylum to-day
looking over the ground with the in
tention Of putting in a bid to supply thu
asylum with the electric lighting appara
tus. An appropriation of $1,000 wal
made for that purpose.
The jury inAthe J. P. Allison case wal
sent out FOR deliberation at 10 O'Clock
last night, an evening session Of oour
having been held in order to getthrough
The jury remained ont all night, ant
came into court this morning without
having arrived at q verdict. They wer
discharged.
The Milwaukee railroad company i
substituting sixty pound steel rails TO
the old and worn out fifty pound iro
rails which have occupied the road be
between YaAktpn and Elk Point fo
many years. This improvement to th
road bed will be completed into Yanl
ton in about ona month.
A COW belonging to n. A. Bake
wandered down upon the sand bar yes
terday and not returning at Che usus
hour for the evening meal q search We
Instituted and tha,gow was found stuc
fast IN the qnicksand perfectly heipies
Flight men, after several hours hal
work succeeded in extricating her. a.
Tomorrow at ~ O'Clock in the for,
moon q mems meeting will be held
Mr, Fogerty's place Of business to pla
for the future conduct OF the reviv
services under the management of MI
, Caldwell. All who are interested in tn
effort TO win souls are invited by M
HaRer to attend. Christian men au
friends.of the cause are the ones he d,
: sires 10 interest in the awakening.
1 A delegation OF gentlemen is in Yam
ton to-day in the interest of the ulino
Central railroad from.LeMars, vie Akrc
to Yanksop. The delegation consit
of E. W. Sargent, V. G. Fal
d ham and A. G. A. Palm, of Akron, q
il. s.. Rishel, 7. NJ. Tomlinson, VIM.
Dent, A. Lawrence, W. s. Welliver q
' F. A. Seaman. Of LeMars. They cal
d with the purpose of arranging wi
,s Yankton for q combined effort to *
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